Google Indicted of Exposing Porn on Korean Kids

Local media reports and government officials have reported that Google was alleged to have exposed children to obscene online content in South Korea.

Korea Times published that the state officials of South Korea claim that they failed to talk to the search giant because it does not have any representative office.

Leading Korean search portals usually confirm that users are at least 20 years old before showing search results that may contain sex-related keywords. However, a newspaper reported that Google's search engine failed to do this.

Han Meyong-ho, an official at the state-run Information Communication Ethics Committee, said that Google is not legally required to check whether Internet users are over 19 years old before search results for adult contents are shown. However, he said that it would be proper if the search engine would check that users are adults like what other popular Korean search sites and Yahoo's Korean portals do.

By M. Sese
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